Increasingly, though, the conference stage was filled with brash, Millennial entrepreneurs vowing to “Disrupt” real-world laws and regulations in the same way that me stealing your dog is Disrupting the idea of pet ownership.

At one point last week the Morgan Stanley $10.7bn pay pot for the year to date was greater than the entire stock market value of the business. In effect, staff, on receiving their remuneration, could club together and buy the bank.

In the first nine months of the year Citigroup, which employs thousands of staff in the UK, accrued $25.9bn for salaries and bonuses, an increase on the previous year of 4%. Earlier this week the bank accepted a $25bn investment by the US government as part of its bail-out plan.

By the way, the Hardwood Suite -- which I heard was around $25,000 a night -- is like going to an adult playground. It is 10,000 square feet spread out over two floors and has an indoor basketball court, complete with a scoreboard and professional locker room. If that weren't enough, there was a huge Jacuzzi tub, a bar with a lounge area, plasma televisions all over the place and a pool table.

Diätenerhöhung: 700 Euro. Geforderte Lohnerhöhung der Lokführer: 500 Euro.

New York Magazine: The Profit Calculator

(Private Investigator) Why Men Are Better Clients: They are nearly always wrong when they suspect a cheating spouse, but they often won’t believe it and will keep McKeever tailing. (Women are 90 percent correct when they suspect their husbands.)

(Drug Dealer) “Nick,” a top crystal-meth dealer for a decade before getting arrested in 2004, explains the system. Every other month, he’d purchase a pound of meth ($32,000 to $36,000) from producers in the Midwest or the Filipino mob in California, and have it shipped via regular mail or FedEx inside teddy bears, candles, or coffee. In the next 36 hours, he’d sell it in bulk to three or four associates, pocketing a 500 percent profit.

Einige können noch nicht mal einen Briefumschlag beschriften is the new Einige besitzen noch nicht einmal einen Wecker.

Neuer Karriereplan: Ich mach euch alle reich. Mit Werbung in Büchern. Und Werbung in Musik. Ist doch nur logisch. Das Geld liegt schon auf der Strasse, die ganzen Künstler müssen sich das nur mal nehmen.